Estate: Conner (Manch)

Associated Families

• Conner (Ballybricken)
• Connor (Bandon)
• Conner (Manch)

Description

Burke indicates that the Conners first settled in the town of Bandon in the late seventeenth century and married into the Splaine family. MacLysaght, in his preface to the 1944 report on the Connor papers, recorded the belief that this family were descended from the O'Conner Kerry. Daniel Connor of Manch, Ballineen, owned over 4000 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. In 1851, he was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Fanlobbus and Kilmichael, barony of East Carbery. In July 1852, over 4200 acres of his property was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. According to Burke the family are associated with the Ballineen area since the late seventeenth century and occupied a house named Connorville in the eighteenth century. In the 1870s Daniel Conner of Manch House owned 4,194 acres in county Cork.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Carrigmore House (Kinneigh) (H3662) James Lysatt [Lysaght] held a property in fee here, valued at £46, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Bence Jones states that it was built in 1842 by James Lysaght on the site of an earlier house known as Connorville, which had been purchased by Lysaght from the Connor family. In 1837 Lewis had referred to it as "the deserted and dilapidated mansion of the O'Connors." In 1783 Taylor and Skinner had indicated Connorsville as a seat of the Connor family as had Wilson in 1786. An adjacent smaller house, known as Laurel Hill, was held by Adderley Bernard in 1851. Carrigmore House and 312 acres, the estate of James Lysaght, were advertised for sale in July 1853. A lithograph of the house is included in the sale rental. Lyons indicates that the estate was sold privately to James L. Holmes. Carrigmore and Laurel Hill were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in 1876, as part of the sale of the Holmes estate. Donnelly states that it was burnt in October 1920 during the War of Independence when it was the property of James H. Morton. The house is now derelict.	Dromidiclogh West	Kinneigh	Dunmanway	Kinneigh 115	East Carbery (West)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.73520 -8.99457 OSI Ref: W313541 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #108.
Fort Robert (Kinneigh) (H3666) Described by Lewis in I837 as a "handsome residence" then occupied by Mrs. [O'] Connor. In 1851 it was leased by George Fuller from Mary Longfield [O']Connor and valued at £18. By the mid 1860s it was in the possession of Thomas Kingston Sullivan. The sale rental of 1867 records that Fort Robert had been "allowed to get out of repair, but is beautifully situated". It appears to have become ruinous by 1890s. The Irish Tourist Association Survey of 1944 stated that the ruin was the property of Judge Henry Connor and also that the house had been associated with Art [O']Connor, United Irishman.	Dromidclogh	Kinneigh	Dunmanway	Kinneigh 115	East Carbery (West)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.73257 -8.98583 OSI Ref: W319538 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #108.
Bridgemount House (Dunmanway) (H3711) Leased by Daniel Connor Jun. from Daniel O'Sullivan at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £10 10s. A house still occupies the site.	Ballyhalwick	Fanlobbus	Dunmanway	Dunmanway 124	East Carbery (West)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.72621 -9.09570 OSI Ref: W243532 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #108.
Manch (H3712) Held in fee by Daniel Connor at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £40. Lewis describes it as "an elegant villa four miles from the town, situated on a terrace, and surrounded with a highly cultivated demesne" in 1837. The Irish Tourist Association Survey of 1944 noted that it was then the residence of Circuit Court Judge Henry L. Connor. Bence Jone notes that the house was gutted by fire in 1963 but afterwards rebuilt. Still in the possession of the Conner family in the late 20th century.	Manch East	Fanlobbus	Dunmanway	Manch	East Carbery (West)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.72795 -9.00165 OSI Ref: W308533 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #108.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Enniskeane
• Irish Genealogical Research Society Library: Pedigree of [O] Connor family of County Cork (Leader Collection)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien, Connor, 9 July 1852, Vol 17, MRGS 39/008, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of Roger Conner of Connerville and his wife Anne Longfield, sister of Richard Viscount Longueville and to his great grandson Henry Longfield Conner, son of Henry Daniel Conner, son of Daniel Conner, all of Manch House, Ballineen, Co. Cork June 10, 1958. Genealogical Office: Ms.111H, fol. 91
• National Library of Ireland: Thirty documents, mostly deeds, relating to lands in Co. Cork, particularly to Gortnagruss, Killynegrohan (Kilnagrohan) and Kilcranton and to the families of Connor, Curtis, Longfield, Wrixon, etc. 1770 - 1821. D. 8685-8714
• Private Possession: Conner Papers, including rentals of the Conner estates 1853-1884 with gaps & other documents, in Manch House in 1975, see James S. Donnelly's book

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (West), Dunmanway Union: 136 (Dromidiclogh, 71 (Ballyhalwick), 105 (Manch East)
• HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 94
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: .Vol,II, 229 (Kinneigh Parish)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 120
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxx, 202 (Manch)
• TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 172
• TOWNSEND, Horatio. Statistical survey of the county of Cork... Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 333
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 240 (Connor's Ville)

Modern printed sources

• Analecta Hibernica: McLYSAGHT, E.A. Report on Conner (of Manch) Papers. XV (1944), 155-150
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 58 (Carrigmore), 200 (Manch)
• BLAKE, Tarquin. Abandoned mansions of Ireland. Cork: Collins Press, 2010.: 60-67 (Carrigmore), 68-73 (Fort Robert)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 107
• DONNELLY, James S., Jr. The land and the people of nineteenth-century Cork. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1975: see index